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Here is a conference announcement from the Georgia Journal of International and Comparative Law and The Dean Rusk Center

“International Human Rights and Climate Change”

February 12, 2010,

at the University of Georgia School of Law in Athens, Georgia.

Thomas Pogge, of Yale University, will present the keynote address: “Poverty, Climate Change, and Overpopulation,” exploring the extent to which the struggles to deal with these three phenomena are in competition with one another and/or synergistic, using a human rights standard as a common metric of assessment.

The day long conference will take the form of a moderated round table discussion, with a lunchtime keynote address.

Participants include: Prof. Peter Appel, University of Georgia; Prof. Dan Bodansky, University of Georgia; Prof. John Bonine, University of Oregon; Prof. Rebecca Bratspies, City University of New York; Prof. Harlan Cohen, University of Georgia; Prof. John Knox, Wake Forest University; Prof. Svitlana Kravchenko, University of Oregon; Ms. Elizabeth O’Sullivan, US EPA Region 4; Prof. Naomi Roht-Arriaza, University of California, Hastings College of Law; and Prof. Dinah Shelton, George Washington University.

More information can be found at: http://www.law.uga.edu/international-human-rights-and-climate-change-conference. If you have any further questions, please contact: Blake McDaniel, Executive Conference Editor, at: gjiclconference@gmail.com or (229) 522-0790.

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Craig Anthony Arnold

Boehl Chair in Property and Land Use Professor of Law
Affiliated Professor of Urban Planning
Ph.D. Faculty in Urban and Public Affairs
Chair of the Center for Land Use and Environmental Responsibility,
University of Louisville